Welcome to the Katz Group

Mission Statement

Our goal is to better understand chemical reactivity by transferring the most essential features of functional group organization found in biological systems to synthetic heterogeneous platforms for catalysis and adsorption. We synthesize nanoscale interfaces consisting of organic and inorganic components as tools for the design of functional materials, using molecular building blocks and templating strategies.

Bio-Inspired
Approaches
to Biofuels

Calixarene-Bound
Metal Clusters

Grafted
Calixarene
Oxide Surfaces

Delamination of Layered Zeolite Precursors

Check out the Katz Group news and awards! Michael has received best poster award at 16th International Symposium in Sapporo, Japan (August 2013} and we welcome the new postdoctoral scholar, Daniel Etzler